A new kind of moron...

Just 'hating' any band is beyond me. Life's way too short.
 
 
Ed Sheeran however..

Full story here.
 
http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/grave-of-late-pantera-guitarist-dimebag-darrell-vandalized
 
I'm off to spend some quality time on the elliptic listening to Cowboys from Hell, which I haven't heard in ages... :)

That... does not seem wise.
 

What's to hate about Ed Sheeran?? Just curious.

Beepster
Considering it was a Pantera fan who killed freaking Dimebag because the band broke up they should definitely lay low. Even Pantera aren't safe from Pantera fans... and bullets don't give a crap how tough you are.

I don't think they have the resource to even imagine such consequences. The world nowadays is all attitude. 
 
I mean, it's only normal to dislike something. Quite often, when it turns to hate, it's just for show. It's already flirting with ridiculous... And to push that a step further by posting it to Instagram... We're dealing with some full-fledged ****s... Jackasses have taken over.
 

Beepster
It's far more counter culture these days to be nice, thoughtful and respectful.

Back when I was into the whole metal scene, as counter-cultural and extreme as it sometimes was, there was some sense of a Klingon/Viking-like code of honour which seems to be long lost today's world. 
 
Despite their looks, in real life, metal heads were quite often the nicest people. Same with Goths. 

Beepster
And punks... though that may not be everyone's cup of tea. I'll hang out with anyone really if they're decent people. Never liked social divisions.

At first we (metal heads) were at war with them, back home. Friday night brawls at the skate park and all... I was a bit young to really get involved but in retrospect, it wasn't all that serious.
 
But soon came along bands which bridged the gap between their culture and ours - Slayer, Metallica and all those guys. I for one was quite happy because some of my best/most interesting friends happened to be punks. 

Back in 89/90 I was in a punk/thrash band with some older guys who were part of the first wave of punks. It really seemed like an all encompassing way of life to them. I'm friends with a couple of them on Facebook and even in their 50's they are still living the punk lifestyle. I see the photos in their network of punk friends and they still look much the same as they did when they were 20, albeit with larger waistlines and less hair in many cases. Still doing small gigs in pubs, still putting out the old style DIY flyers. Hats off to them, they never sold out. 

sharke
Back in 89/90 I was in a punk/thrash band with some older guys who were part of the first wave of punks. It really seemed like an all encompassing way of life to them. I'm friends with a couple of them on Facebook and even in their 50's they are still living the punk lifestyle. I see the photos in their network of punk friends and they still look much the same as they did when they were 20, albeit with larger waistlines and less hair in many cases. Still doing small gigs in pubs, still putting out the old style DIY flyers. Hats off to them, they never sold out. 

I became the young kid amongst the 1st, 2nd wave oldsters who had been doing it since the late 70s/80s. That wasn't until about 97-98 so I don't what "wave" that would be but it was all pretty far along and yeah... those older dudes who stuck with it are lifers for sure. Most of their friends died, many others got married and moved to the burbs, etc but those dudes remained and kept doing what they did. Lots of life lived there and a lot to be learned. Some strange and rigid views on certain things that us "puppies" couldn't really relate to but all in all I think I'm a better person for knowing them. I don't know... maybe I've "sold out" but health issues were not allowing me to keep up that lifestyle. The fact you see little kids with yuppie parents sporting mohawks kind of sucked a lot of the edge out of it anyway so now I'm a longhair again (and that's just because I'm too cheap to get a haircut... lol). I got nothin' to prove anymore anyway... well aside from music nerd stuff. Next chapter, yo.

Went to see The Damned and The Anti-Nowhere League in Chippenham in 1983..the audience were bloody terrifying to a poor country lad like me.